2021-07-20, 01:45 PM
(2021-07-19, 10:23 PM)David001 Wrote: [ -> ]But how could that create the very detailed information to generate almost any protein? A string of 200 amino acids (say) needs 600 nucleotide bases to encode it (plus stop codes etc).You have me right - about every living thing having leverage in the non-physical. Every living thing is actively surrounded by two (or more) environments. The informational environment can be measured scientifically, just as can the physical environment.
Maybe that is saying that every living thing has a toehold in the non-physical realm - which I would probably agree with - but I think you are arguing the point that RM+NS can be replaced by something purely physical.
Is DNA modeled physically by chemistry? Yes it is. If you look at the chemistry alone - it is an interesting crystal. However, DNA is not interesting and important because of how it looked to Rosalind Franklin, but because of its ability to handle information processes such as the function: copy.
In an exact opposite direction to "replaced by something purely physical", I am asking for answers to come from information science. The question you ask is - how does the complexity enter the coding. The obvious one-liner back is --- "one bit at a time". But each bit has to be structurally related to the others and with the total environment. The cohesiveness of the bits to preform a function drives the character of the information objects.
I want better answers as to how has mind and life found the levers of reality to be able to create working codes. The assumption is that there are levers and so we discovering them. We with new frames of reference. We know the math of levers and simple machines - objectively in recent centuries. Billions of years ago, living creatures used logic gates to alter probabilities for life experiences, subjectively. Today we are decoding how it works, objectively.
Seemingly, life uses mind from as soon as it was possible on earth. Evidence shows that life is commanding and controlling its inner subjective environment with objective results. "It from bit" means that the flow is info first and physicality follows. This flow is decoherence, where all probabilities are reduced to actual outcomes.
At the chemical start-up of biology real-world information objects, as chem formulations, had to be probable outcomes. The activation of these probabilities comes from the presence of the functional informational objects. I think that suggests mental work was done prior to materials suddenly working in concert - through mutual communication.
The parable of the mountains and rivers tells us that our perspective is altered by our framing. In the history of natural science, first there was a focus on mind. The thinking skills of humans, to science then, clearly made our outcomes in both environments better. Here in the analogy-- mind is the mountain we see looming over us.
Then science tried to get objective, and the mountain became obscured. Dealing with the mountain's structure demanded intense focus. The mountain is unseen while climbing it. Then at the top, we see the mountain again, but with an elevated perspective.
Information science, as logic, communication theory, complexity theory, linguistics, semiotics and thermodynamics can help us track the evolution of information objects that lead to an understanding of how mind works.